Revenge can indeed be sweet….
When her brother’s car plunges off a cliff with him and his fiancée in it, Amanda Davies gets the news personally from the fiancée’s brother. The devastatingly handsome Italian businessman appears in Atlanta and whisks Amanda off to Italy to be with the hospitalized couple. But could his motive be more?
Nicholas de Frenza never approved of his sister’s choice in husband to begin with, and now that Carita is in a coma due to her fiancé’s reckless driving, it seems the perfect time to resurrect an ancient Italian custom of revenge: the seduction calls for a similar seduction in return, a sister for a sister. But Nico is too civilized for such vengeance – or is he?
Even as Amanda falls for the Tuscan’s charms, she knows his code, and his family would never approve of her as more than a simple dalliance. But then the secret about the car wreck comes out – and that’s when everything changes….
Reads like a bad Harlequin romance. Jennifer Blake is an author I’m familiar with. I’ve read some of her historical romances and several are worth the read. Unfortunately, this Blake contemporary reads like a kitschy Harlequin, complete with an Italian millionaire (or is it billionaire?), a man who’s hugely chauvinistic and overbearing. The heroine is a bit of a ninny, never initiating actions on her own, just reacting to what comes her way. The two do not trust each other or even like each other much and that makes their…
Not A Big Fan Of This One This is just personal preference…I have read many of JB’s books and liked many of them but not this one. I can’t fault the writing or the story itself but what I can complain about is the absolute idiot the hero was. I didn’t like him from the minute he opened his mouth. I detest overbearing, chauvenistic, arrogant men and this guy pushed my buttons at every turn. It spoiled the story for me since I just kept being more and more mad at him wanting the heroine to stand up for herself. She…
Left me flat When a story’s premise is farfetched right out of the gate, it’s hard for me to get on board. I did stick with The Tuscan’s Revenge Wedding and finished it, but it was a disappointing read. At the start of the story I wondered why the Count didn’t just send plane tickets with a note explaining the direness of the situation. Why was it so important for him to fly across the Atlantic to personally escort her? Surely if he knew the city where she lived and where she worked, he would have contacted…